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and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the state of minnesota is just hours away from stepping into its second a week of the actually they've just resolved their second week of government shutdown. we'll see if this is going to affect the other states and another on a budget talks took place on the on the hill today yet no deal was made that is the fate of our nation really rests on a battle of egos or problem between republicans and democrats and they've gone from buying their way into college universities or buying their own laws i'll tell you how the koch brothers are using their billions to literally write legislation for wall makers. getting to know this another day another round of debt ceiling negotiations another no go on reaching a compromise that would prevent the united states and defaulting on its financial obligations on august second but there's been no lack of drama in washington as last night's meetings ended with reports of house majority leader eric cantor and president obama facing off in a heated exchange of words and today treasury secretary tim ge
and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the state of minnesota is just hours away from stepping into its second a week of the actually they've just resolved their second week of government shutdown. we'll see if this is going to affect the other states and another on a budget talks took place on the on the hill today yet no deal was made that is the fate of our nation really rests on a battle of egos or problem between republicans and democrats and they've gone from buying their...
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push for the big cuts republicans say they want. if they turn their back on those big cuts, the president is in the strongest position to say they are not living up to their rhetoric. let alone their principles. >> and there is no chance of them accepting any kind of big deal at all because the president is insisting that there be tax revenue increases in there. so the president knows that he is pushing something that they absolutely cannot agree to. so at this point, what the president does seem to be doing is what you just said, is making his position appear to be the one who wants to do the big move on deficit reduction and forcing these republicans to back away from big deficit reduction, thereby, he hopes, neutralizing deficit reduction as an issue against him in the presidential campaign. >> well, look. he's talked about deficit reduction all the way through. but remember, it's not just his position here. it's two thirds of the american public. we have a slew of polls here saying that two thirds of the american people want to
push for the big cuts republicans say they want. if they turn their back on those big cuts, the president is in the strongest position to say they are not living up to their rhetoric. let alone their principles. >> and there is no chance of them accepting any kind of big deal at all because the president is insisting that there be tax revenue increases in there. so the president knows that he is pushing something that they absolutely cannot agree to. so at this point, what the president...
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for democrats, the big divide will be over seoul's security. the administration has signaled some willingness to start addressing social security and may be cutting a program of debt and that is something that many rank-and-file democrats say is a nonstarter for them. >> medicare? >> that is something that a lot of democrats have objections to. they see it as something back and use -- be used effectively for the in the 2012 elections. people don't like those cuts of they are unwilling to give that up as a political weapon. >> what does that mean for getting some sort of deal out of the house? is the dynamic the same in the senate? >> it is fairly similar in both chambers right now. right now, they're walking a tight line. the more the republicans know that they need 50 or 60 democrats to pass it out of the house. the problem is not anything except they have to give up certain things and push more republicans away. the way to balance losing republicans looking democrats is very difficult for them. you see the minority leader nancy pelosi and ste
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on tarp is a big. i know you're in a devastating oil spill in the united states last week a pipeline belonging to exxon mobil underneath the yellowstone river ruptured spewing tons of crude into that notable waterway at first the company downplayed the area of contamination after read salmon in the spill over the weekend now it appears that over forty two thousand gallons of oil have coated more than ten miles of the old stone river choking wildlife and slipping the river brings at all marks to national treasures blackened by crude in the last two years so how many more until we get the message and kick big oil out of our nation's energy portfolio or at the very least how many wall accidents will it take for us to realize the oil industry can't control itself and maybe it's even time to nationalize it to prevent further ecological and economic damage to our nation trying to talk about this issue as matthew data veteran journalist and author of the new book subversion nk athey welcome welcome welcome to
on tarp is a big. i know you're in a devastating oil spill in the united states last week a pipeline belonging to exxon mobil underneath the yellowstone river ruptured spewing tons of crude into that notable waterway at first the company downplayed the area of contamination after read salmon in the spill over the weekend now it appears that over forty two thousand gallons of oil have coated more than ten miles of the old stone river choking wildlife and slipping the river brings at all marks to...
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ready to roll it's time for friday night's big picture rubble where i sit down with three extra political commentators to debate with the week's biggest stories our panel tonight heather sermon a conservative strategist of energy an owner of for forty public relations group democratic strategist and brian darling director of government studies at the heritage foundation and a columnist of human events and contributor to red state dot com all of you thinking about it all right. it's official last week debt ceiling negotiations broke down with house majority leader eric cantor threw a fit about closing the tax loophole for corporate jet owners over this week it was revealed that cantor may have ulterior motives in sabotaging the debt ceiling negotiations just as andrea to millionaires and billionaires according to his financial statements this year he had her has fifteen thousand dollars short on the dollar in other words a fifteen thousand dollars bet that the u.s. dollar value will plummet and. and there's no better way to cause the dollar to lose value than to ensure that america default
ready to roll it's time for friday night's big picture rubble where i sit down with three extra political commentators to debate with the week's biggest stories our panel tonight heather sermon a conservative strategist of energy an owner of for forty public relations group democratic strategist and brian darling director of government studies at the heritage foundation and a columnist of human events and contributor to red state dot com all of you thinking about it all right. it's official...
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you have to stick it to the big guys. congressman, thanks. >> thank you. >>> all right joining me now, chief congressional correspondent for the national journal. doesn't want to kick the can down the road. >> right. >> sounded like a guy who, if that's the deal that's cut and there's a temporary deal, right now, that's what smells like is coming. >> yes. >> he did say i will vote against that. what they say and don't say matters. he didn't say i will vote against them. it's going to have to be against the house leadership to agree to a short term resolution to this absent huge deal. >> eric cantor told me this week, there's a great column on this, a great column about eric cantor. if we look in five pots here, the white house, senate republicans, not democrats house democrats, all reluctantly support the short term deal. the one who wouldn't, house republicans. >> they don't want to vote twice. there's a number of the house majority that total 239 that want this to be the moment of decision. they don't want a moment of i
you have to stick it to the big guys. congressman, thanks. >> thank you. >>> all right joining me now, chief congressional correspondent for the national journal. doesn't want to kick the can down the road. >> right. >> sounded like a guy who, if that's the deal that's cut and there's a temporary deal, right now, that's what smells like is coming. >> yes. >> he did say i will vote against that. what they say and don't say matters. he didn't say i will vote...
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he's really putting the really dicey issues on the table, social security, medicare, big if, big i-f, if republicans backs off its no tax position. what do you make of that? >> thank you so much for having me. you're kind with your pli compliments. let me say this when we first started the biden talks being in that room, $4 trillion was a number we all talked about. we did feel, though that we couldn't get there, but that we should do something that would be a down payment on getting there. something between $1.4 and $2 trillion. and so these discussions we've had. and i would say to those people who have gotten so nervous about the president putting things like medicare on the table to remind them that when medicare part d was done, we brought in to support medicare that a lot of fapharmaceuticals didn't hav. they is medicaid. putting medicare out there and not allowing for adjustmented rates, that's what got the costs up. if we had negotiated rates for medicare, same for the v.a., for veterans in the v.a., veterans administration, that could see a tremendous cost savings. so i am ho
he's really putting the really dicey issues on the table, social security, medicare, big if, big i-f, if republicans backs off its no tax position. what do you make of that? >> thank you so much for having me. you're kind with your pli compliments. let me say this when we first started the biden talks being in that room, $4 trillion was a number we all talked about. we did feel, though that we couldn't get there, but that we should do something that would be a down payment on getting...
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you know the big of politics. i wonder, what is it like to stand there as a senator from new hampshire waiting for the president and boehner and the crazy tea party people to cook up a deal, and then you've got to decide on what to do with it. what is the mood now among the grownup senators? >> i think people are very frustrated. it is time now for us to act. we have the whole world watching. we have an economy in this country that will have devastating consequences if we fail to raise the debt ceiling. middle-class families across this country who will be affected with their credit cards, car payments and mortgage payments. this is a manufactured crisis, it doesn't need to be there. it's time for people to put aside their partisan differences and come to the table and get this done. >> what i don't understand is -ç well, i do understand, but i don't want to, this coming together of ideology and crisis management. we have a solvency problem in the federal government, spending more than bringing in. that's a pract
you know the big of politics. i wonder, what is it like to stand there as a senator from new hampshire waiting for the president and boehner and the crazy tea party people to cook up a deal, and then you've got to decide on what to do with it. what is the mood now among the grownup senators? >> i think people are very frustrated. it is time now for us to act. we have the whole world watching. we have an economy in this country that will have devastating consequences if we fail to raise...
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that's the big test. he has it figure out if he can get the 217 votes for this bill, which will probably then be at least in his mind, the blueprint for some sort of negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. i think one of the things that a speaker obviously has to dos well is to set up all of the reelection prospects for the members. so the question in 2012, did the speaker pro individual a viegs, rational off of their candidacy and rational for a republican presidency. so i think that's the real test and there will be many other moments the next couple of months as the presidential race unfolds and as other topics come up in the congress. >> well, we'll see. let me ask another question. are liberal's really feeling left behind in conservatives overjoyed by a new poll showing the president losing support on the left. washington post polls said the numbers who liked the president's records on jobs have dropped 22% so far this year. but the huffington post has looked back at history and in fact, president ob
that's the big test. he has it figure out if he can get the 217 votes for this bill, which will probably then be at least in his mind, the blueprint for some sort of negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. i think one of the things that a speaker obviously has to dos well is to set up all of the reelection prospects for the members. so the question in 2012, did the speaker pro individual a viegs, rational off of their candidacy and rational for a republican presidency. so i think that's the...
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after the break why big oil means big money for the republican party especially one particular freshman republican. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the us. i think the bombings feed on the oil. we have the government says to the keep you safe get ready because of the freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't i'm sorry this is the. other year in a devastating oil spill in the united states last week a pipeline belonging to exxon mobil underneath the yellowstone river ruptured spewing tons of crude into that notable waterway at first the company downplayed the area of contamination after reexamining the spill over the weekend and now it appears that over forty two thousand gallons of oil coated more than ten miles of the yellowstone river choking wildlife and slipping in the river banks that now march to national treasures whack and buy crude allies two years so how many more until we get the messa
after the break why big oil means big money for the republican party especially one particular freshman republican. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the us. i think the bombings feed on the oil. we have the government says to the keep you safe get ready because of the freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you...
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we are now beyond a big deal. you don't do a press conference like that if you think there is a shred of possibility can get done. you know what is fascinating, major meksed in the beginning when we were talking about middle class that president made up political ground. what i thought of when i watched the clip, real echos of al gore. people versus the powerful. that's about as close as barack obama is going to get to a pob umt we need to stand up for the middle class p.m. framing this as a debate between the powerful special interest and republicans not willing to get over. he didn't mention it by name but essentially did. while he is looking out for the middle class for the people who i would just remind folks, tend to decide elections pb plid el class. he is their champion. >> i still remember the fact that his op ad, this morning, the final line mate a plea. not only for rs or ds but to people of i. >>> here comes speaker john boehner right now wp we will listen and then analyze. >> good evening. want to be c
we are now beyond a big deal. you don't do a press conference like that if you think there is a shred of possibility can get done. you know what is fascinating, major meksed in the beginning when we were talking about middle class that president made up political ground. what i thought of when i watched the clip, real echos of al gore. people versus the powerful. that's about as close as barack obama is going to get to a pob umt we need to stand up for the middle class p.m. framing this as a...
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remember this number, $172 billion, if you go back and look at big ticket items here. as you come out from the safety net. i need to take this off and make that go away. you come back and look at this deficit scenario here, if you look at interest on the debt and you look at social security payments and you look at medicare and medicaid, some other services, then you hit up to the money pretty quickly of what the government has. the question is priorities. yes, congress could send the social security checks out, but if he did that, something else wouldn't get paid. the military might not get paid. how would you prioritize? >> that's the thing. we need to prioritize. i think we should be looking to not default on our debt. we should be paying social security, medicare, medicaid, and our military pay. i believe we can do that with the revenues that we're taking in. i want to deal. i want to make sure we do not default and get this prioritization. these are going to be the president's responsibilities. if he cannot come to the table and actually agree with the house repub
remember this number, $172 billion, if you go back and look at big ticket items here. as you come out from the safety net. i need to take this off and make that go away. you come back and look at this deficit scenario here, if you look at interest on the debt and you look at social security payments and you look at medicare and medicaid, some other services, then you hit up to the money pretty quickly of what the government has. the question is priorities. yes, congress could send the social...
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i'montessa brewer back in the saddle covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news. the judge in the roger clemens perjury trial has just declared a mistrial. nbc's pete williams is in washington, d.c. what's the judge saying about this trial, pete? >> reporter: well, the judge has said he'll decide at a hearing on september 2nd, almost two months from now, where we go from here. this trial had just started yesterday with opening statements from both sides and the prosecutors had begun calling witnesses, but the judge had told the prosecutors in advance that certain evidence was off-limits and one of the things that was off-limits was related to testimony by a friend and former teammate of roger clemens named andy pettitte who had played with him on two major league teams. andy pettitte has said that roger clemens told him he used human growth hormone. clemens says that pettitte is mistaken. what's at issue here is a legal document, sort of sworn statement by the wife of andy pettitte, who says yeah, i heard my husband tell me that roger
i'montessa brewer back in the saddle covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news. the judge in the roger clemens perjury trial has just declared a mistrial. nbc's pete williams is in washington, d.c. what's the judge saying about this trial, pete? >> reporter: well, the judge has said he'll decide at a hearing on september 2nd, almost two months from now, where we go from here. this trial had just started yesterday with opening statements from both sides and the...
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here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture democrats are catching on to what john boehner and the republicans real plan is with the debt ceiling debate to crash the economy so what can democrats do to counter this republican scorched earth agenda g.o.p. presidential candidate michele bachmann will be outdone by the rest of the republican party in her bid to screw over the working class she wants to kneecap the minimum wage so exactly will that help americans who are struggling to make ends meet and ohioans are fighting back against their governors controversy anti-union law so can governor john k. six union busting agenda survive a million person assault from the law. you need to know this group of two hundred forty eight economists six of whom are nobel prize winners sent a letter to rational leaders yesterday demanding a clean vote to raise the debt ceiling arguing that failure to do so could have a substantial negative impact on economic growth the i.m.f. issued a similar warning to saying that failure to raise the debt ceiling could result in a severe shock to global finan
here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture democrats are catching on to what john boehner and the republicans real plan is with the debt ceiling debate to crash the economy so what can democrats do to counter this republican scorched earth agenda g.o.p. presidential candidate michele bachmann will be outdone by the rest of the republican party in her bid to screw over the working class she wants to kneecap the minimum wage so exactly will that help americans who are struggling to make...
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it's a big chunk of the republican conference. how big? we don't know yet. but he is the pit bull on those issues and is not going to back down. that puts boehner in here as sort of the good cop. it's clear that john boehner, speaker boehner, thinks you have to do something to increase the debt limit or it could be politically and economically catastrophic for the party. i don't think eric cantor necessarily shares that world view. >> we will be hearing from tim geithner, who is meeting with the democratic senate side today, the caucus lunch. he's going to come out and give the latest on the dire predictions of what is going to happen if they don't get something done in the next 19 days. >> right. he's going to talk about the effect it would have on the economy, on debt, on social security checks and whether they could go out to recipients. i have talked to enough house republicans about it. they don't buy it. they don't believe in these warnings about catastrophic consequences. they think that you can find the money to be able to fund things while a deal is
it's a big chunk of the republican conference. how big? we don't know yet. but he is the pit bull on those issues and is not going to back down. that puts boehner in here as sort of the good cop. it's clear that john boehner, speaker boehner, thinks you have to do something to increase the debt limit or it could be politically and economically catastrophic for the party. i don't think eric cantor necessarily shares that world view. >> we will be hearing from tim geithner, who is meeting...
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boehner has walked away from the negotiations on a major deficit reduction agreement, the so-called big deal with president obama. speaker of the house, john boehner, told reporters he would be calling the president and then at 5:30 tonight, he told the president he would no longer be working with the president on a deal on the debt. the speaker says he will now be working on a way forward with republican and democratic leaders in the house and senate on raising the debt ceiling. in a few minutes, i'll be joined by eugene robinson, richard wolffe, and kent conrad. first, here's the president in the white house after speaking with speaker boehnor. >> this was an extraordinarily fair deal. if it was unbalanced, it was unbalanced in the direction of not enough revenue. but in the interest of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party, and i spoke to democratic leaders yesterday, and although they didn't sign off on a plan, they were willing to engage in serious negotiations, despite a lot of heat from a lot of interest groups around the country
boehner has walked away from the negotiations on a major deficit reduction agreement, the so-called big deal with president obama. speaker of the house, john boehner, told reporters he would be calling the president and then at 5:30 tonight, he told the president he would no longer be working with the president on a deal on the debt. the speaker says he will now be working on a way forward with republican and democratic leaders in the house and senate on raising the debt ceiling. in a few...
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it's going to take somebody with big egoand lots of money. in 1992 that was ross perot. >> he's little. >> the only one who fits all of those descriptions how is the mayor of new york michael bloomberg. >> because he's short? >> no. he's got billions and the ego and the organizational gift, by the way, he built bloomberg just the way perot build perot systems and so forth. these are guys who know how to build empires and business who think some of them that they can build a temporary empire which is what a presidential campaign is. bloomberg say he's not doing it. >> chris, i want to play for you angus king. he was on another show this morning, one that i'm familiar with called the daily rundown. he brought up a candidate. listen to who angus king floats as a potential candidate for an independent candidacy or third party ticket. listen. >> i think it would be somebody, a guy named chuck hagel a republican senator from nebraska. >> who endorsed obama, essentially. >> she a terrific guy. i could say a guy like that and maybe a slightly disaffe
it's going to take somebody with big egoand lots of money. in 1992 that was ross perot. >> he's little. >> the only one who fits all of those descriptions how is the mayor of new york michael bloomberg. >> because he's short? >> no. he's got billions and the ego and the organizational gift, by the way, he built bloomberg just the way perot build perot systems and so forth. these are guys who know how to build empires and business who think some of them that they can...
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where we're going to end up, it's we're going to end up with some kind of short-term extension, no big deal, and then everybody's going to blame everybody else for the fact we didn't get anything done. you talk about the gang of six, there's a gang of 300 million out there, the american people, who are completely fed up with this. they elect representatives to take care of housekeeping chores, and this is a grand housekeeping chore, and they are failing at the process of doing it. >> howard, i'm wondering, does the same thing go for -- it is my sense it does. boehnor is actually not the most disappointed guy in the capitol, he knew he was putting together something that wasn't real and that cbo shooting it down is not some big shock to him, that he was just putting together to claim he was putting something together. >> that's true too. maybe there was a smidgen of sincerity there and knowing him and having covered him, but yeah, they both want to be able to say after we all go off the edge of a cliff that it was the other person's fault, and that's exactly the situation we're in right
where we're going to end up, it's we're going to end up with some kind of short-term extension, no big deal, and then everybody's going to blame everybody else for the fact we didn't get anything done. you talk about the gang of six, there's a gang of 300 million out there, the american people, who are completely fed up with this. they elect representatives to take care of housekeeping chores, and this is a grand housekeeping chore, and they are failing at the process of doing it. >>...
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welcome back to the big picture i'm john harbin coming up in this half hour republicans have taken off the gloves in their war against women stepping into rather personal choices like whether or not to bear a child so far is the g.o.p. so hell bent on following the taliban's meanwhile both medicare and medicaid remain on life support as lawmakers discuss massive cuts to the entitlement programs and the growing wealth inequality do more harm than good to the economy. the republican war on women has reached an all time frenzy high in the past few months a good backer institute study released this week shows the states have an active one hundred sixty two new provisions related to reproductive health and women's rights in just the first six months of two thousand and eleven and a sharp increase in last year forty nine percent of these new laws seek to restrict access to abortion services and twenty six percent of the new laws restricting abortion as this chart that was included in the report shows eighty abortion restrictions on acts of this year are more than double the previous record o
welcome back to the big picture i'm john harbin coming up in this half hour republicans have taken off the gloves in their war against women stepping into rather personal choices like whether or not to bear a child so far is the g.o.p. so hell bent on following the taliban's meanwhile both medicare and medicaid remain on life support as lawmakers discuss massive cuts to the entitlement programs and the growing wealth inequality do more harm than good to the economy. the republican war on women...
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he wanted a clean bill, didn't want any big grand compromise on the budget. then he decided to get involved in the game and try to work out a grand compromise, but the problem was he was dealing with a incapacitated partner in john boehner who could never, and probably can never, deliver his own caucus for a vote. >> and that vote, the boehner vote, was supposed to be tomorrow on the boehner bill. they have given up on that having that vote tomorrow because they don't have a boehner bill anymore. howard, it seems to me that, as you say, what each side is doing is trying to say, it's their fault that it came to this and they need say to their own sides -- i mean boehner needs to be able to say to the republicans and the tea party, i never gave up, i was fighting all the way to the end to get us to this. but when we get to august 1st, there is a very simple way out, it's a way that has been used more times than they can count, which is the one-page, one-sentence bill, which simply raises the debt ceiling. boehner has said, repeatedly, we must raise the debt cei
he wanted a clean bill, didn't want any big grand compromise on the budget. then he decided to get involved in the game and try to work out a grand compromise, but the problem was he was dealing with a incapacitated partner in john boehner who could never, and probably can never, deliver his own caucus for a vote. >> and that vote, the boehner vote, was supposed to be tomorrow on the boehner bill. they have given up on that having that vote tomorrow because they don't have a boehner bill...
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texas is a big state, has a lot of people in it. for a governor who hasn't even announced he's running, hasn't decided whether he's running, to come in with 39% of the vote in a thee receipt tech le theoretie president, those are pretty good numbers, don't you think, scott. >> much of this polling data is a reflection on the incumbent president rather than any challenging. no matter who we put against the president he attraction that number. jon: when you put michelle bachman in there she got 39% of the votes. the slight difference here is that president obama's number went up slightly to 46% versus 44% for perry. but she has the same number he has. >> again, she is considered one of the leading candidates. you'd have to say that mitt romney, perry and bachman are the top three right now. the odds are better than 50-50 that one of them will be the republican nominee. there are interesting differences in the dynamics, michelle bachman does much better among men, and rick perry a again women. jon: generally, i mean the more interestin
texas is a big state, has a lot of people in it. for a governor who hasn't even announced he's running, hasn't decided whether he's running, to come in with 39% of the vote in a thee receipt tech le theoretie president, those are pretty good numbers, don't you think, scott. >> much of this polling data is a reflection on the incumbent president rather than any challenging. no matter who we put against the president he attraction that number. jon: when you put michelle bachman in there she...
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that is b-b-billion with a b, as in a mighty big number. we lost $32 billion just waiting around for the chance to go. say what you want about tax breaks for the rich. but if you're stuck in traffic, your mercedes is stuck right along next to my chevy. and heaven forbid that a bridge falls down, because we are all in this together. rich, poor, whatever. infrastructure is like that. it's the ultimate expression of collective will, where everyone pays and everyone benefits. we are, after all, stakeholders in our nation. if stuff like a water main breaks, you can go ahead and think of that water main as your water main, because it is. and what if we left the stuff that we own, our stuff, just fall apart? now, we have been talking on this show about happens if congress lets america default on its debt. if they create a situation where america can't pay its bills. the bipartisan policy center has scenarios for that. and the first of them is that we would cut off $5.6 billion for stuff like highways and trains and airports. think about the long-t
that is b-b-billion with a b, as in a mighty big number. we lost $32 billion just waiting around for the chance to go. say what you want about tax breaks for the rich. but if you're stuck in traffic, your mercedes is stuck right along next to my chevy. and heaven forbid that a bridge falls down, because we are all in this together. rich, poor, whatever. infrastructure is like that. it's the ultimate expression of collective will, where everyone pays and everyone benefits. we are, after all,...
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that's a big problem. number two, he has 90 something new freshmen republicans who don't want to go along with him unless there's a balanced budget amendment in it. he has a rob lem internal lip. not -- he has a problem internally, so now what? >> he's got a problem internally because he didn't have to reinvent any wheel here. i do respect speaker boehner's effort trying to negotiate with joel low as he characterizes negotiating with president obama. the internal problem he has is reventing the wheel in the 11th hour when we had cut, cap and balance that passed the house. we don't need to retreat and wave the white flag because the senate is saying they won't allow a vote on cut, cap and balance. now we have to think up another plan. no, we didn't have to do that the cut, cap and balance plan is the right plan. because evidently, there are enough members of congress who are insisting the debt ceiling will be raised. i don't want to see it raises. they are saying it will be. if it going to be raised we bett
that's a big problem. number two, he has 90 something new freshmen republicans who don't want to go along with him unless there's a balanced budget amendment in it. he has a rob lem internal lip. not -- he has a problem internally, so now what? >> he's got a problem internally because he didn't have to reinvent any wheel here. i do respect speaker boehner's effort trying to negotiate with joel low as he characterizes negotiating with president obama. the internal problem he has is...
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is financed in part by big investment funds that expect a return. you've put a million dollars into this? >> just over, yes. >> reporter: amy domini manages the sustainability group, a billion-dollar fund for wealthy investors. >> my investors want to be part of the solution. that's... that's what i attempt to give them. when they call and ask what's their portfolio doing, this is what they're talking about. >> reporter: b.c.c. makes sure clients like the bassilas can afford the lower mortgage and have steady paychecks. monica works at the state department of health. mike is on disability. >> many people that were able to purchase their home back... >> reporter: in a little over a year, b.c.c. has helped 125 boston-area families; only one has defaulted. there will be people who are paying their mortgages who see this and say, "why should those people be helped?" >> i'm hard pressed to see how we're helped as a country by making more people homeless and putting them out of their homes. >> reporter: b.c.c. hopes to roll this program out nationally. in
is financed in part by big investment funds that expect a return. you've put a million dollars into this? >> just over, yes. >> reporter: amy domini manages the sustainability group, a billion-dollar fund for wealthy investors. >> my investors want to be part of the solution. that's... that's what i attempt to give them. when they call and ask what's their portfolio doing, this is what they're talking about. >> reporter: b.c.c. makes sure clients like the bassilas can...
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a big change in what your doctor should be doing for you. dr. richard besser on the secrets of getting the health care you deserve. >>> and, watch out, world. the american girls who took the prize at the biggest, toughest science competition in the world. >>> good evening. for the fifth time this week, republicans and democrats were squabbling and arguing about what to do, as the clock keeps ticking down. the august 2nd deadline, when america will default on paying its debts to the world, which would cause a body blow to the american economy. the president said today he knows that people are stressed out by that ticking clock, and across the country, we heard it. so many people saying, this is exactly the reason they're frustrated with the way washington works. and abc's jim avila starts us off. jim? >> reporter: diane, wall street is nervous, and it's even worse on main street. we heard today, the country is watching what their leaders are doing, and, frankly, many feel ashamed. america is in danger of deadbeat status. and americans are not hav
a big change in what your doctor should be doing for you. dr. richard besser on the secrets of getting the health care you deserve. >>> and, watch out, world. the american girls who took the prize at the biggest, toughest science competition in the world. >>> good evening. for the fifth time this week, republicans and democrats were squabbling and arguing about what to do, as the clock keeps ticking down. the august 2nd deadline, when america will default on paying its debts...
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and billionaire progressive presses want to contribute conservatives want to make off with a big profit and the very very ugly tea party congressman joe walsh walsh is bashing the president and encouraging our nation to default on its debts because he's busy not meeting his own obligations namely pain child support ex-wife claims he owes over one hundred thousand dollars and paid child support walsh argues they're never going to pay up and he did go on a couple overseas mackaye sions with his new girlfriend and he found enough cash to live on his campaign thirty five thousand dollars as attorney is defending his client saying joe walsh hasn't been a big time wage earner politician until recently he's no more problems with child support than any other arab ridge god that's his defense yeah i'm not paying child support but i'm not as bad as your average decreed. we stop listening to the tea party's fiscal advice from their own members hand and seize it's very very. after the break something is sucking away american manufacturing but you know what it is and why it's the real crisis congres
and billionaire progressive presses want to contribute conservatives want to make off with a big profit and the very very ugly tea party congressman joe walsh walsh is bashing the president and encouraging our nation to default on its debts because he's busy not meeting his own obligations namely pain child support ex-wife claims he owes over one hundred thousand dollars and paid child support walsh argues they're never going to pay up and he did go on a couple overseas mackaye sions with his...
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biggest shareholder to come to murdoch's defense on day one but saudi prince i'll be wired who's a big shareholder and of course the saudi arabia is a perfect example there is a country that's completely in the throes of a dictatorship of furnishers dictatorship portie the wealth and income gap is probably the more the highest in the world that's what the murdoch's aspire to they aspire to lords and service they speier to define right schlepped snopt says look dictators well going back to the story about hedge funds ditching the shares and selling them to institutional investors institutional investors are also of course passive funds of a pension fund so these are once again all the risk all the toxic waste all of the fraud all of the bad stuff gets dumped on to pass it on vespers us chunks whether we're you know taxpayers or peasants in these this oligarchic system we get with the risk whatever you want it doesn't matter it's what happened you know we saw the same thing with british petroleum there were other reasons why they weren't fully prosecuted for their gold logical whole cost
biggest shareholder to come to murdoch's defense on day one but saudi prince i'll be wired who's a big shareholder and of course the saudi arabia is a perfect example there is a country that's completely in the throes of a dictatorship of furnishers dictatorship portie the wealth and income gap is probably the more the highest in the world that's what the murdoch's aspire to they aspire to lords and service they speier to define right schlepped snopt says look dictators well going back to the...
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and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the debt deadline draws closer and closer yet republicans are stepping farther and farther away from the negotiating table with the republican party actually forced the united states into default just to protect their billionaire billionaire buddies are well more moderate voices in the party and as much as the republicans would like to argue how corporate taxes are destroying our economy truth be told they're not the truth about corporate taxes will be revealed the nights alone liberal rubble. you need to know this another day another step closer to default and enough another debt limit negotiations set for this week and every state yesterday president obama squashed the idea of a short term debt limit increase killing republican hopes to kick the can down the road into an election year when republicans would have even more leverage and then called for another meeting later this week with congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle to reach a long term debt limit deal a deal president obama is pushing for includes closing ta
and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the debt deadline draws closer and closer yet republicans are stepping farther and farther away from the negotiating table with the republican party actually forced the united states into default just to protect their billionaire billionaire buddies are well more moderate voices in the party and as much as the republicans would like to argue how corporate taxes are destroying our economy truth be told they're not the truth about corporate...
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she's making a big push. i thought it was very fascinating she goes hard on, she talks the deficit and wasteful bailout. it's a strong term. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. it gives a sense of where she thinks republican voters are and the most fascinating moment was nothing you heard, but something you saw. the slate at the end where she says michele bachmann. the choice that will beat obama. she, like romney, already looking ahead to the general election. >> have you been impressed by her roll out? >> very impressive. to not forget or to put it in political perspective, i know the bail out and the stimulus is unpopular. if we hadn't had them, we would have 16% or 17% unemployment in this country. it would have been a financial not crisis, but meltdown. you can't campaign against popular policies, but that person would be a bad president if a financial sector melts down again. i don't think we are out of the woods. >> even with the acoustic guitar in the background? john, how is she doing out t
she's making a big push. i thought it was very fascinating she goes hard on, she talks the deficit and wasteful bailout. it's a strong term. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. it gives a sense of where she thinks republican voters are and the most fascinating moment was nothing you heard, but something you saw. the slate at the end where she says michele bachmann. the choice that will beat obama. she, like romney, already looking ahead to the general election. >> have you been...
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murdoch is a big backer of republicans. if more momentum builds for probes into possible hacking in the united states or even congressional hearings, there are cautionary tales for lawmakers, reports that tabloids sometimes turntables for those who investigate them. most of those accounts date back to well before the scandal blew back in the media in recent weeks. media standards trust tells us when british parliamentarians look into the tabloid press a couple of years ago, he heard allegations that they were discouraged from repeatedly inviting rebecca brooks, one of murdoch's top execs to receive. >> the allegation was they were told, members were told do not invite her again. do not press this one, do not push it because if you do, you're regret it. and that was made very clear to them. >> reporter: contacted by cnn, a news corporation spokeman would not comment on that allegation. >> are you concerned they might hit back at you, dig into your personal life or whatever? >> i'm not worried about my personal life nor am i
murdoch is a big backer of republicans. if more momentum builds for probes into possible hacking in the united states or even congressional hearings, there are cautionary tales for lawmakers, reports that tabloids sometimes turntables for those who investigate them. most of those accounts date back to well before the scandal blew back in the media in recent weeks. media standards trust tells us when british parliamentarians look into the tabloid press a couple of years ago, he heard allegations...
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protecting and defending tax loopholes for millionaires and big corporations is what republicans have called for. they need to meet us somewhere. >> thank you, congressman steve israel. >> thank you. >>> joining me now, "washington post's" chris, author of "the fix." a managing editor also. let's visit this grover norquist issue. i think on tuesday in an interview with your "washington post" editorial board, grover norquist, the man famous for his anti-tax pledge, said that not renewing the bush tax cuts would not violate his pledge. listen to some of that audio released. >> not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. >> stow does not violate the pledge. >> we wouldn't hold it that way. it would be a very bad thing to do. it would raise taxes from where they are today. >> who don't follow the inside baseball the way you and i eat, drink and sleep it. what is the significance of grover norquist saying that? >> for people who don't know, grover norquist since 1985 has run a group called americans for tax reform pap d.c.-based group that does a lot of thing. basically, to
protecting and defending tax loopholes for millionaires and big corporations is what republicans have called for. they need to meet us somewhere. >> thank you, congressman steve israel. >> thank you. >>> joining me now, "washington post's" chris, author of "the fix." a managing editor also. let's visit this grover norquist issue. i think on tuesday in an interview with your "washington post" editorial board, grover norquist, the man famous for...
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and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture bipartisan budget talks on capitol hill failed once again today with exactly three weeks left until our nation falls on its debt so the democrats want to protect the middle class and republicans want to safeguard their buddies from tax hikes is a deal even a tangible plus europe's biggest fear is now reality the euro's valid value is fall but the exchange crisis the economic crisis changed the amount of aid greece and other struggling countries in the euro zone receive. you need to know this the verbal jousting about the debt ceiling continues here in washington as meetings continue between from aggression a leader and the administration president obama warned of some very dire consequences for americans depend on social security if a compromise is not reached by the august second deadline wolf this is not just a matter social security trustees are veterans checks these are folks on disability and their checks. there are about seventy million checks that go out can you guarantee as president those checks will go out on august thir
and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture bipartisan budget talks on capitol hill failed once again today with exactly three weeks left until our nation falls on its debt so the democrats want to protect the middle class and republicans want to safeguard their buddies from tax hikes is a deal even a tangible plus europe's biggest fear is now reality the euro's valid value is fall but the exchange crisis the economic crisis changed the amount of aid greece and other struggling...